March 2012 Guest Editor Alan Bradley on Louise Penny...
As a young child and early reader, I used to pilfer my older sister’s copy of Ulysses. I didn’t understand the book but I loved the words. More than sixty years later, there are parts of Joyce (notably Finnegans Wake) that I still don’t understand, but I still love the words. I keep both books on my night table.
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A freshly annotated and reset edition of Joyce's great epic, in a hardback Penguin Classics edition Ulysses, written between 1914 and 1921, has survived censorship, legal action and bitter controversy. Following the events of a single day in Dublin and the experiences of Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, it stands as an undisputed modernist classic: a profoundly Irish book that also reaches out to the whole world.
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A freshly annotated and reset edition of Joyce's great epic, in a hardback Penguin Classics edition Ulysses, written between 1914 and 1921, has survived censorship, legal action and bitter controversy. Following the events of a single day in Dublin and the experiences of Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, it stands as an undisputed modernist classic: a profoundly Irish book that also reaches out to the whole world.
Ulysses features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Hardback, Paperback, Ebook. £27.00, down from the £30.00 cover price. Pre-order. 15th October 2026.
Ulysses was written by James Joyce and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Ulysses has 1,296 pages
£27.00, reduced from £30.00. Pre-order. 15th October 2026.
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